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Big brand manufacturers have been struggling over recent years to monitor working conditions and practices in distant supplier factories. A media report uncovering the use of child labour can have a major damaging impact on a brand’s market position. But

Grocery retailers are battling it out to secure a slice of the ‘green market’. As a growing proportion of sales is attributable to environmentally conscious consumers, leading retailers are busy nailing their green credentials to the flag pole.

As always there was a crowded field in the Retail and Distribution category, with finalists including Rexel Senate, Deutsche Woolworth, Mexx, Asda, and Sainsburys.
Rexel Senate has 95 UK branches wholesaling and distributing domestic and industrial elect

Traditionally, this is one of the most highly competitive Awards sectors, and this year was no different. For the combination of volumes and complexity, this sector has few rivals, and it has always set the pace for rigorous, data-based supply chain manag

Just two entries made it into the finals in the Engineering & General Manufacturing category this year – whether this reflects the general drift of manufacturing away from Europe, or the more specific concentration of European manufacturing in the separat

Now in their tenth year, the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards said farewell to previous lead sponsors Cap Gemini after three successful years, and welcome in their place PRTM. For those who don’t know, PRTM is one of the world’s leading operational

This category might be regarded as almost the entry level for the Awards – after all, if you can’t ship the right goods to the right place at the right time, it would be hard to make any claim to excellence.

All of the industry sector winners were of course reviewed for the most prestigious Award of all, that of Overall Winner – by definition, they all display excellence in at least parts of their supply chain operations. The final choice came down to Cisco,

Almost be definition all our finalists believed they had been innovative, but that can range from discovering and applying an entirely novel approach to a supply chain issue, to being the first in a particular business or industry sector to adopt and adap

This sector threw up some very curious combinations and parallels, and as Gordon Colborn notes in his general appraisal, the service element of logistics is becoming increasingly important, even for companies who think their main business lies in manufact

All supply chian work is necessarily team work. The judges were looking for teamworking and effective collaboration both within the organisation and externally with partners, suppliers and customers and many of our finalists demonstrated these qualities.

As Chris Webster of Capgemini notes in his analysis, the ‘buy’ side of submissions by this year’s finalists was perhaps rather weaker than in previous years, and the judges only gave serious consideration to two entries for this Award, namely Computacente

As usual, a very disparate set of entries in this category makes comparisons invidious. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) entered specifically to gain recognition for the efforts of their team co-ordinating the initial

Computacenter is a familiar name in the ESCE Awards, their UK operation having reached the finals in previous years. This time, however, it was the company’s German Logistics and Service Centre at Kerpen that was under the microscope.

If there's one subject I encounter wherever I go in Europe, it's the question of the shortage of relevant skills in the logistics industry. Of course, this shortage varies in form from country to country but the underlying problem does not bode well for E